In the case of Luis Posada Carriles, no major figure in the Administration has stepped to a podium to explain the government’s approach, much less to put the Administration’s treatment of a man it calls a “terrorist mastermind” into the context of the Global War on Terror.
The explainer-in-chief is Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd, who presents the government’s immigration charges as the tough and appropriate solution. From an AP report:
"We intend to prosecute him on criminal charges, and we‘ve made that abundantly clear," said Dean Boyd, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Justice in
On that same program, a lawyer representing the Venezuelan government claimed that if Posada is convicted on the immigration charges, the customary sentence for each count would be a few months, and Posada might serve little to no time in jail if the time he has already spent in detention is credited against his sentence. Do any readers have a view on that?
More coverage, and more comments from the beleaguered Boyd, from David Adams in the St. Petersburg Times here.